Posts tagged with "William Shatner"

A round-up of some of the oddest and funniest images and videos that have been doing the rounds on the ’net we like to call inter over the past week or so. Enjoy.
••• What if Stormtroopers had been cloned from something other than a humanoid? That’s the inspiration behind a series of helmets by New York City designer Blank William. Called “The New Order”, has Stormtrooper helmets for elephants, hippos and rhinoceroses...

••• As filming gets underway on the next Jack Reacher film, Paramount had revealed that it will be called Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. Well, it is based on Lee Child’s 18th Jack Reacher novel, Never Go Back, after all. Newly-announced additions to the cast are Holt McCallany (Blackhat, Run All Night) and Austin Hebert (The Answer). The film also stars Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Aldis Hodge, Danika Yarosh and Patrick Heusinger and will...

• Here’s the trailer for yet another movie based on a YA book series, Fifth Wave. This one stars Chloe Moretz (Hit Girl in Kick-Ass, Let Me In) and appears to have been edited together from a buch of other trailers. Moretz is great, though, and Maze Runner was much (much) better than its trailers suggested so maybe it’ll be worth a look.
• Another trailer, this time for a new mobile phone game Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes. If you’re wondering...

Last week we told you that Star Trek’s William Shatner was requesting for people to send in selfies of them doing Vulcan salutes because he had some scheme planned to honour his old colleague, Spock actor Leonard Nimoy who passed away earlier this year at the age of 83. And here’s the wonderful result: a portrait of Nimoy made up from over 6,000 selfies.
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He revealed it in a Tweet that said, “Why did...

William Shanter is asking for your help in creating a tribute to his Star Trek friend and colleague Leonard Nimoy, who died earlier this year at the age of 83.
The Kirk actor Tweeted a request for people to send him selfies of them doing the Vulcan salute – aka the LLAP (Live Long And Prosper sign) made famous by Nimoy’s Star Trek character Mr Spock.
“I need everyone’s help,” Shatner tweeted. “Take a selfie of you doing...

There are few science-fiction character portrayals more iconic than that of Star Trek‘s Captain James T. Kirk by the legendary William Shatner. It was no surprise, then, that when CBS announced that Shatner would be reprising his role, a thrill of excitement was felt by fans everywhere.
But how will Shatner being re-visting this role? Will it be in the upcoming Star Trek 3 movie? Well, for answers to these questions, we need look no...

It is with heavy hearts that we announce the death of classic Star Trek star, Leonard Nimoy at the age of 83. Mr Nimoy’s family confirmed that he passed away earlier today as a result of his end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
His iconic role as the half-Vulcan, half-human Spock in the ground-breaking original Star Trek series launched him into international stardom in the 1960s. As the first officer of the Starship Enterprise,...

A veteran of MCM Comic Cons, the lovable Vic Mignogna was able to come back this weekend to say hi to the UK with another panel.
The show opened up with a video from one of Vic’s live concerts, where he plays an assortment of anime songs and popular tracks; then he came on stage, and promptly walked off as he decided standing up on the stage and talking down at the audience was a bit too impersonal.
Walking through the starry-eyed rows of the...

Set to premiere in the US on 19th April, BBC America has announced that it’s making a show so exciting that we may have to consider demanding license fee refunds if it doesn’t come over here in some form too. The Real History of Science Fiction is a look into the themes and ideas that have inspired countless sci-fi stories on page and screen, featuring a stellar and intergalactically diverse cast of “experts”. Trekkie or Whovian,...

MCM BUZZ Podcast #24
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